Santa Barbara County

Tentative map review fee: Deposit-based, billed at hourly staff rates against an initial deposit — no flat fee published source · verified 2026-07

The official Submittal Checklist (verified 2025.04 version, downloaded directly) states: 'An invoice for the required submittal fees will be provided to the applicant and/or agent with payment instructions... Applications are not accepted for processing until all intake fees are paid.' It does not list a fixed dollar figure. A search result claimed a '$1,800 application fee with 50% deposit' but this could not be corroborated in any primary document actually fetched (the Development Impact Mitigation Fee summary PDF and a Board of Supervisors fee-resolution PDF were both downloaded but did not contain that figure in extractable text) — that specific number is NOT included here because it is single-sourced from a search-engine summary, not a verified document. Only one real source (the checklist) was obtainable; treat the deposit-billing structure as single-sourced pending direct access to the Planning & Development discretionary-permit fee schedule PDF.

Recording fee: $14.00 base fee (documents with all pages 8.5"x11") + $3.00 per additional page, plus a $75 Building Homes & Jobs Act fee per document title (capped at $225/transaction) source · verified 2026-07

This is the Santa Barbara County Clerk-Recorder's general document recording fee schedule, effective January 1, 2026, corroborated across two independent web-search result excerpts describing the same PDF (search snippets, not a direct successful fetch — the civicplus asset URL 404'd/returned JSON on direct curl and WebFetch, likely due to a signed/expiring cache token in the query string). Recording fees are set under Gov. Code §27361 (base/additional-page fee) and §27388.1 (Building Homes & Jobs Act fee). Could not independently confirm whether parcel/final maps are billed under this general per-page schedule or a separate map-specific line item — the Recorder's office should be called to confirm the map-specific rate before publishing as authoritative; phone below was found via search (not independently verified live).

Tentative map review fee: Tentative Parcel Map (4 or fewer lots): $6,000 deposit; 5-99 lots: $11,000; 100-499 lots: $16,000; 500+ lots: $24,000. Final Parcel Map: $1,668 base + $67/lot. source · verified 2026-07

Downloaded and text-extracted directly (pdftotext) from the City's Master Fee Schedule, 'Effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025' (FY 24-25). No newer FY25-26/26-27 schedule could be located as of this July 2026 check, so this may be superseded — flagged rather than assumed current. Single-sourced (one document); no second corroborating source found.